chilling down at the shore...

So I'm down at the Jersey Shore for a couple of days: family reunion with relatives visiting from the "Left-Coast" (California.) I've been going to and from the shore for the past week so far. Traffic on the Parkway sucks as typical NJ, always an accident and always backed up. So far it's been colorful weather, hot, humid, rain, t-storms, nice, breezy and generally alright. The water temp has been in the mid to high 60s, so chilly but refreshing from the hot sun.

I decided to grab a stick from my quiver (surfboard from assortment of other boards) from under the house. Yes I keep my surfboards under the beach house, it's the only logical place to put them since underneath the temp is cool, it's out of direct sunlight and nobody will accidentally knock them over or step on them. UV is bad for fiber glass too. So anyway I grabbed my 7' retro egg, a fun shape that I had custom made just after freshman year in college. Had to buy a bar of wax from the local surf shop, Mrs. Palmer's 5 Daughters imported from Oz. Best surf wax out there, plus it comes with a nice pair of ta-tas on the box which just makes it awesome to be rubbing on the board. Got to love Australian marketing :P.

Donned my old wetsuit and ran to the beach to give it a whirl. Too bad it's been mostly choppy with the southerly wind, blowing the waves out and strong current. Nonetheless I went anyway out of trying to see if I could still do this. Didn't catch very many waves, and found that my arms are out of shape as I wasn't really going anywhere when I paddled out. Something I need to work on. Had fun, let the tide come in and eventually got out and went home. I suppose I'll try again early tomorrow morning. It's usually better in the morning s as the wind is usually calmer and you get to watch the sun rise.

I'm bummed however since I won't be able to attend my friend Kelly's party way upstate near Potsdam, NY. Complications involving having to drive my ailing grandfather back to his home in central NJ and the improbability of possible jury duty on Monday. I can't find out if I have to attend until late Sunday afternoon. How inconvenient is this country's justice system. I was talking to one of my cousins about it and he mentioned that he had to take a whole week off from work and turns out he never had to go. Something about them telling him to call for several days in a row to see if he was selected from the lottery of names and he wasn't but talk about inconvenience in case I didn't already mention it before. Personally I think it's total BS that we as citizens have to do this, I mean I've got shit to do and plans that I've made which now have gone out the window.

So in the meantime I'm waiting out for a reply for a diving job up in the finger lakes, so far no response. I hate it when people don't reply. Just might think of taking up that Learjet and helicopter refueling job at 39N in Princeton.

Bry-Guy out.....